eker

noun

eker

noun

Etymology From eke + -er.

1

One who ekes.

What with the increased cost and the continued element of unreliability that these facts mean, I don't see in hydro-electricity more than an eker-out of coal and oil, not a supplanter.1957, Petroleum Times, volume 61, page 43:

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